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Organizers of the annual “Welcome To Rockville” Festival presented by Monster Energy have released more information on this year’s festival. 2013 is the festival’s third year being held. Performance times for bands on each stage have officially been released. The “Monster Energy Main Stage East” opens with a performance by Pop Evil at 12:40pm. Pop Evil will be followed by All That Remains, Halestorm, Papa Roach, Stone Sour, and headliners Alice in Chains. Alice in Chains takes the “Monster Energy Main Stage East” at 9:45pm. The “Monster Energy Main Stage West” is just one of the many stages from which audiences have to choose during the festival. A full listing of bands and performance times is available below.

Saturday, April 27

Monster Energy Main Stage East

12:40 PM Pop Evil

2:05 PM All That Remains

3:35 PM Halestorm

5:25 PM Papa Roach

7:25 PM Stone Sour

9:45 PM Alice In Chains

Monster Energy Main Stage West

12:05 PM Young Guns

1:20 PM In This Moment

2:50 PM Asking Alexandria

4:30 PM Bullet For My Valentine

6:20 PM Three Days Grace

8:30 PM Limp Bizkit

Emerging Artist Stage

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1:00 PM Hell Or Highwater

2:10 PM Gemini Syndrome

3:20 PM Whitechapel

4:45 PM Otherwise

6:20 PM Escape The Fate

Jax Live Stage

11:30 AM RockvilleRumble Winner

12:30 PM Edens Fill

1:40 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

2:50 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

4:05 PM Stars In Stereo

5:35 PM MonstrO

7:25 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

Sunday, April 28

Monster Energy Main Stage East

11:45 AM Red

12:55 PM Saving Abel

2:30 PM Filter

4:10 PM Skillet

6:05 PM 3 Doors Down

8:35 PM Lynyrd Skynyrd

Monster Energy Main Stage West

11:15 AM Farewell 2 Fear

12:20 PM Nonpoint

1:40 PM Steel Panther

3:20 PM Hollywood Undead

5:05 PM Buckcherry

7:15 PM Shinedown

Emerging Artist Stage

11:20 AM Nebraska Bricks

12:20 PM Soulswitch

1:25 PM Girl On Fire

2:35 PM Saliva

3:45 PM Motionless In White

5:10 PM Device

6:50 PM Nothing More

Jax Live Stage

11:50 AM (N)ception

12:55 PM The Apprehended

2:05 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

3:15 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

4:40 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

6:15 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

The whole party will be preceded by the “Rockville Downtown Experience presented by Corona Light” pre-party on Friday, April 26th. Two post-show parties will be held Saturday, April 27th. Admission to these parties is FREE. Friday’s show will feature Saliva, Evergreen Terrace, and Victr as entertainment. The bands will perform live at the Underbelly in Jacksonville, FL. More information on this party is available online at http://www.jaxunderbelly.com. Saturday’s after-parties will feature performances by DJ Monk and Robert Goodman at 1904 Music Hall in Jacksonville, FL (http://www.facebook.com/1904MusicHall, http://www.1904MusicHall.com) and Icey at the Underbelly.

Fans that attend the festival will have plenty of opportunities to get their CDs, shirts, and more signed by their favorite band(s) at the f.y.e. tent and other onsite locations. There will also be interactive experiences such as a gaming area and Dave’s Crazy Music Experience. This experience lets fans find out for themselves what it’s like to make music in a studio environment. It includes actual guitars, drums, basses, and all the gear used by today’s top acts.

Tickets are still available for this year’s festival. Prices are listed below.

Along with the listed ticket prices, “no service fee tickets” are available at specific Metro PCS locations. More information on this is available online at http://www.welcometorockvillefestival.com/tickets.html. A limited number of VIP tickets and hotel packages are still available. They can be purchased online at http://www.WelcomeToRockvilleFestival.com. VIP tickets include entrance to all concerts through a VIP entrance, access to VIP lounge featuring dedicated bar, beverage and food service, viewing of the Monster Main Stage (both seated and standing areas), a seated area with shade for dining, private bathrooms and laminated VIP guest pass.

The debut album from Orange County, California’s own Hell or Highwater is a solid slab of All-American made rock and roll. The new project from Atreyu front man Brandon Saller boasts a sound that is obviously different from what Atreyu put out. But it is still a good solid record that true hardcore fans will enjoy and appreciate. It will be just as appreciated and enjoyed by fans of the likes of Black Stone Cherry and others of that ilk. Saller and his band mates make quite the first impression with this debut in the album’s opener, ‘Gimme Love.’ The way this song is written, it comes across as a musical love letter to a woman. Rather than being another one of those songs that goes on about the difficulties of life on the road, Saller sings that he knows it’s tough loving a musician. But at the same time, the figure in the song has every intention of being with said love interest. He makes this clear in the song’s opening verse singing, “It’s hard/Living loving a music man/I’m not a saint/And I make mistakes/But I’m just doing the best I can/These lonely days/Are coming to an end my dear/Future’s on fire/It’s burning brighter than ever before. He goes on to sing his declaration of love for his woman even though he knows he’s not perfect, “Baby I swear this love is true/Darling I do this all for you.” The poppy-up tempo music backing these heartfelt yet not too sappy lyrics make for a solid opening for the band’s first full length effort. The enjoyment doesn’t end here. From here, audiences are offered a whole baker’s dozen count of songs from which to choose their favorites. Just one other example of what audiences have to look forward to in that mass of songs is ‘When The Morning Comes.’

‘When The Morning Comes’ succeeds for the same reason as the album’s opener. Both musically and lyrically, it’s one of those uplifting songs that will leave any listener feeling good. Saller sings of feeling emotions and thinking thoughts that we’ve all thought before, but despite all of it, having the strength to push on. He sings that he’ll be better “when the morning comes” and to “forget yesterday/Today’s mine!” It’s a not so metaphorical way of saying, “I’ll make it through the night. No matter how bad things get, I’ve got my family and my friends and they give me strength.” The song’s music helps to illustrate that positive vibe, too. Its up-tempo guitar riffs and major chords combine with the optimistic lyrical side to make for a song that will easily become a fan favorite both on the album and on the road if it isn’t already a live favorite. The band keeps that same positive vibe from here as it transitions into ‘Crash & Burn.’

‘Crash & Burn’ is just as impressive as ‘When The Morning Comes’ as it carries that same sense of knowing how tough life is but it’s not too tough to handle. Saller makes that clear as he sings, “Live for the chase/Survive by the thrill/If you want me to take this step/I will/No longer afraid/No longer at bay/Longing to face my fears but still/A promise is made/To change who I am/No looking back/We’ll fight to the end/A promise in vain/Is a promise to break/Your life is only yours to make. Again, there is that openly positive vibe that so much of today’s rock music needs, in place of the constant shoe-gazer, “oh poor me” mentality that is thrown out by so many bands. Add in equally uplifting musical backing by the band and this song becomes just one more of so many highlights from this album. It clocks in at just over three minutes long. In that three minutes plus, it shows that it’s possible to be positive and still rock out. And combined with the album’s other material it helps to make this album an early contender to be one of the year’s best general rock records.

Begin Again will be available in stores and online beginning February 5th. As everybody counts down the days to the release of the band’s debut, the band is touring in support of it. The band will be performing tonight, January 8th, in Mobile, Alabama. It follows up tonight’s show with a pair of performance in Florida Thursday and Friday respectively. There are even more dates planned after these shows. To get a full listing of tour dates, fans can go online to the band’s Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/HellorHighwaterofficial . Fans can also get the band’s tour dates, full album lyrics and even more on the band’s official website, http://www.HellorHighwaterofficial.com. And for all the latest news from the band, fans can follow its members on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HellOrHighwater.